Oct 26, 2012

"It is simply a matter of historical fact that the dominant
intellectual culture of any particular society reflects the interest of
the dominant group in that society. In a slave owning society the
beliefs about human beings and human rights and so on will reflect the needs of the slave owners.

In
the society, which is based on the power of certain people to control
and profit from the lives and work of millions of others, the dominant
intellectual culture will reflect the needs of the dominant group. So,
if you look across the board, the ideas that pervade psychology,
sociology, history, political economy and political science
fundamentally reflect certain elite interests.

And the academics who question that too much tend to get shunted to the side or to be seen as sort of ‘radicals’.”